The way I understood OP’s point is that because LLMs have been trained on the entirety of humanity’s knowledge (exemplified by the internet), then surely they know as much as the entirety of humanity. A cursory use of an LLM shows this is obviously not true, but I am also raising the point that LLMs are only summoning a limited subset of that knowledge at a time when answering any given prompt, bringing them closer to a human polymath than an omniscient entity, and larger LLMs only seem to improve on the “depth” of that polymath knowledge rather than the breadth of it.
Again just my impression from exposure to many LLMs at various states of training (my last sentence was not an appeal to expertise)
Again just my impression from exposure to many LLMs at various states of training (my last sentence was not an appeal to expertise)